Packard A History of Global Health

Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2034-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.

Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health services, sanitation, or clean water? And why are deadly diseases like Ebola able to spread so quickly among populations?

In A History of Global Health, Randall M. Packard argues that global-health initiatives have saved millions of lives but have had limited impact on the overall health of people living in underdeveloped areas, where health-care workers are poorly paid, infrastructure and basic supplies such as disposable gloves, syringes, and bandages are lacking, and little effort has been made to address the underlying social and economic determinants of ill health. Global-health campaigns have relied on the application of biomedical technologies—vaccines, insecticide-treated nets, vitamin A capsules—to attack specific health problems but have failed to invest in building lasting infrastructure for managing the ongoing health problems of local populations.

Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Packard, Randall M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations and Tables
Introduction
Part One
1. Colonial Training Grounds
2. From Colonial to International Health
Part Two
3. The League of Nations Health Organization
4. Internationalizing Rural Hygiene and Nutrition
Part Three
5. Planning for a Postwar World
6. A Narrowing Vision
Part Four
7. Uncertain Beginnings
8. The Good and the Bad Campaigns
Part Five
9. The Birth of the Population Crisis
10. Accelerating International Family-Planning Programs
11. Rethinking Family Planning
Part Six
12. Rethinking Health 2.0
13. Challenges to Primary Health Care
Part Seven
14. AIDS and the Birth of Global Health
15. The Global Fund, PEPFAR, and the Transformation of Global Health
16. Medicalizing Global Health
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Packard, Randall M.
Randall M. Packard is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa; The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria; A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples; and coeditor of Emerging Illnesses and Society: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda.

Randall M. Packard is the William H. Welch Professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria and White Plague, Black Labor: Tuberculosis and the Political Economy of Health and Disease in South Africa.